I hate this with every fiber of my being. One of the primary drivers in becoming a scientist is that your brain loves coming up with ideas for experiments. If you're out of ideas go do something else and let the rest of us cook.

Big congrats to Steve Mahler’s group at UCI ICAL! 🎉 Their team published 3 major papers in 2025 — including one featured on the cover of the Journal of Neuroimmunology — advancing research on cannabinoids, addiction, and brain–immune interactions. Proud of this amazing work! 🧠✨

📢 Upcoming Live Webinar - Save the Date Join us Monday, January 12th from 9:00–10:00 AM (Pacific) for an engaging discussion on Alcohol Use and Disorder by Age, Gender & Race 🎓 Presented by Kristen G. Anderson, PhD (Reed College) Don’t miss this opportunity to explore important research and insights

Will you be at @acnporg.bsky.social conference next week? @hmarusak.bsky.social and I will be sporting these cool buttons. Find me and grab one from me! Talk about #livedexperience with me, too! #SoberScientist

I support college/transfer, PhD/grad admissions, fellowships (GRFP/F31 + others), internships, and postdoc funding with strategy, writing feedback, CV/resume help, and mock interviews. I work with a range of budgets and can suggest a smaller, high-impact place to start. Reposts appreciated 💛

Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇 "Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

My favorite thing to do with time off is nothing and then when it's over I go oh no I've done nothing

Happy New Year 🥳!

Slime mold, Physarum rubiginosum on moss. NWT, Canada. #slime #fungifriends

My favorite type of article is in-depth office supplies testing. medium.com/graphicfacil...

My nephew's second grade teacher was MY third grade teaching assistant. She remembers me and is always asking how I am (and bragging to the students how great I was as a kid). Do you think the NIH would be OK with her submitting a referee letter for my K99?

Season 2 Episode 29 - Frame 1398 out of 2711

btw we are finally making progress on this item !!

Very proud of our @projectechohq.bsky.social program on alcohol use and mental health and the community of practice we have built over the last 3.5 years! projectecho.unm.edu/story/the-ne...

Reflecting on 2025—I did the most uncharacteristic thing: I read a biography (non-fiction). 40+ hours of painful details on a polarizing man who shaped U.S. domestic affairs. This book gave me a "short" U.S. history lesson that I never knew I needed. Highly recommend. FYI you will be disgusted!

How does cortisol tune brain networks to form strong emotional memories? Excited to share new work led by amazing former RA Flory Huang w collabs Rajita Sinha and @toddc.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Moebius, "Nighthawks"

Skype a Scientist is such a fun way to talk the public about what you do!! I've been able to talk to college and high school students about my job and research and how much I love it.

Here is the same graph, limited to the "diversity" K99-R00 programs including MOSAIC. See if you can detect a subtle change after Judge Young's ruling that "DEI" terminations were illegal on June 16th. 2/3

Oh to be a little kitty cat in a sunbeam on a frigid day, surrounded by all of your toys...

🍪On National Cookie Day, we’re reminded that science is everywhere—even in your oven! If you’re not yet a member, now’s a sweet time to join! Because breakthroughs are better when shared. JOIN RSA: researchsocietyonalcohol.org/member-resou...

Enoch Gordis Research Recognition Award informational session: DECEMBER 9, 2025 at 12:00pm CT Please RSVP at the following this registration link by December 7, 2025: bit.ly/Gordis2026 You will then receive a link for a Zoom meeting prior to the session.

New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Ornelas lab investigates the neurobiology of traumatic stress & alcohol use disorders Current research in the lab explores the role of corticolimbic circuitry & the endocannabinoid system in regulating maladaptive stress coping behaviors and alcohol drinking #ACNP2026 / @lcornelas.bsky.social

Such a great resource, and proud that @ruvvyresiliencelab.bsky.social and me are included! Thank you @thetransmitter.bsky.social for the feature and for the compilation. PS--we are HIRING for a part-time RA position (waynetalent.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...) and are welcoming graduate apps for FY26!

⏰ Last Chance: DSSGP LOI Due Today! Today is the final day to submit your Letter of Intent for the RSA Doctoral Student Small Grants Program (DSSGP). Don’t miss this opportunity to support your work and advance alcohol research, submit your LOI by the end of today! 🔗 rsa.societyconference.com

#PenNLINC is recruiting a clinical coordinator / lab manager!!! Looking for someone who is good with both people + code, wants to learn to acquire + analyze imaging data. Alumni in this role have written 1st author papers + gone to top grad programs. Website: www.pennlinc.io Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir

Join the RSA Community this Giving Tuesday! Our giving tiers make it simple to support education, training, and small grants for emerging investigators. Every level makes a difference and donating online is fast and easy. WATCH THE VIDEO: youtu.be/VJmF_mqXVrQ #RSACares #ScienceForChange

Enoch Gordis Research Recognition Awards Interested in applying for the Enoch Gordis Research Recognition Award? Attend the information webinar on Tuesday, DECEMBER 9th at 12:00 pm Central Visit bit.ly/Gordis2026 to register by December 7th. Zoom link will be emailed on December 8th.

Made some flowers with dried leaves. It’s nice to work in a campus with so many different and beautiful trees! @ncstate.bsky.social

Save the Date: December 2nd, 2025 Join us for Module 1: Intro to Alcohol Use & AUD A 1-hour overview of DSM-5 criteria, key risks, stigma, and the real social/economic impact. Learn the facts behind alcohol-related harm. #RSA #AlcoholUseDisorder #AlcoholAwareness #ReduceHarm

Here is Week #1 installment for @acnporg.bsky.social Travel Awardees of #ACNP2026 Dr. Mia Rough, Wake Forest University Dr. Clara Zundel, Wayne State University Dr. Ryann Tansey, University of Calgary Dr. Alexander Herman, University of Minnesota @clarazundel.bsky.social @ryanntansey.bsky.social

Ok, now I have SfN FOMO 😭

Twelfth book of 2025 was another emotional one, this beautiful poetry collection about loving dogs and the life of dogs 🥹 As such, I accompany this post with photos of our Bear 🫶 Book 12 of ? in 2025: Dog Songs by Mary Oliver (and I hit my goal of reading at least 12 books this year!)

Researchers from UNMC, Boys Town, and Creighton partnered with Nebraska Cures to talk with Nebraska State Senators Arch and von Gillern about the power of the Nebraska Tobacco Settlement Health Research Fund to help us recruit and retain the best and brightest researchers.

drone shots look like shit. so does 4k/120hz video. a shaky, brief helicopter shot in an old movie or tv show still looks cool. the human brain does not like the crispness or smoothness of computers and robots. my guess is that we evolved this instinct during the Computer War of 25,000 BCE

Oh to be a spiky little guy snuffling around in the mossy ground

While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.

If you’re interested in chatting about using an Alzheimer’s disease lens to study brain development you can catch me on Saturday Nov. 15th from 1-5 at poster GG5 or at the Early Career Poster Session from 6:45-8:45 at poster W5. #SfN20205 @sfn.org

🎉 Congratulations to our Social Media Editor, Dr. Leah Mayo, on being named to Avenue Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40! Her research on stress, cannabinoids, psychedelics, and mental health continues to make an impact - in and beyond the lab. 🔗 www.avenuecalgary.com/top-40-under...

So proud of our team @ruvvyresiliencelab.bsky.social presenting at @isdp.org last night! Luis is applying to graduate programs in clinical psychology this cycle and shared his thesis work last night. Miracle will be applying to grad school next year and talked about our brain imaging study!

Know someone who advocates for, implements, or excels at the application of ethical practices in alcohol-related research? Nominate them or yourself for RSA’s Animal Research & Ethics Committee (AREC) Annual Award. #AREC #AnimalResearchSavesLives 🔗 researchsocietyonalcohol.org/annual-award...

After a much needed social media hiatus, I’m back to share experiences from and and promote events at @isdp.org this week in San Diego! Looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and making new connections as well. If you’re at the meeting, please feel free to come say hi!

Sometimes the best part about lab meetings is making your own announcements... Happy 10th birthday to my kitty cat, Chef! 🐈🖤

Your periodic reminder that people blithely saying things like 'Shop around!' to minimise price rises almost always relies on women spending large amounts of unpaid time having to go to 6 different places just for groceries. I could list others - so many money-savers are just 'women's free time'

We are proud to announce ACNP's NPP Journal award winners! Dhvani D. Mehta, B.Sc. (NEATOR Award), John H. Krystal, M.D. (NEAR Award), and Max E. Joffe, Ph.D. @mejoffe (NEECA Award) @npp-journal.bsky.social, #ACNP2026

At what point do I stop thinking that every paper published after 2015 is recent? Despite being almost a decade old?

No Kings except

from the spooky tutorial series: how to draw pumpkin cat 🎃